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wounding /ˈwuːndɪŋ /adjective1Causing physical injury: crossbows and deadly wounding darts...- The military response was swift and wounding.
- The initial corporeal silence of the wound, the muted mark of the sword's wounding penetration, is not alone sufficient-there cannot be, as Derrida writes of Artaud, "stigmata … substituted for the text".
- On the way he staged a wounding attack on himself.
1.1Causing harm to a person’s feelings or reputation: a wounding description of their mother most wounding to her was the loss of her independence...- He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down.
- She is surprised by the intelligence into a wounding tactlessness.
- He is more correct than he may have imagined, his words betraying an even more wounding significance.
Derivativeswoundingly /ˈwuːndɪŋli / adverb |